Video: British scientists have figured out how vegetables communicate
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
Communication is necessary for everyone. And vegetables are no exception. British scientists from the University of Exeter made an interesting discovery. They found that vegetables are capable of more than ripening in the garden, namely "talking" to each other.
Scientists have previously assumed that plants, including trees, are capable of communicating with each other. However, only now scientific data have been received, not only confirming this phenomenon, but revealing the very mechanism of communication.
The scientists noted that the uniqueness of their experiment lies in the addition of the firefly's photophore gene to the gas, which made it possible to record the process of plants' communication on the film of a particularly sensitive camera - a photon detector, RIA Novosti reports. The experiment was carried out specifically for the educational BBC series How to Grow a Planet ("How to grow a planet").
British researchers conducted an experiment previously known in science on the Tal rezukhovidka - a vegetable from the cabbage family. The leaves of one of the plants were incised, as a result of which the rezukovidka released gas, warning neighboring undamaged shoots of the danger. Those, in turn, launched internal defense mechanisms: they immediately increased toxic substances in their biochemical balance that counteract pests, primarily caterpillars.
According to the head of the experiment, Professor Ian Stewart, a special gas, in fact, is a kind of communication tool for plants. “Gas serves as the language of communication between plants, with its help they inform the world around about the need to increase the level of protection,” he explained. At the same time, he noted that "we are only at the very beginning of the path in understanding the language of the plant world."
Now inspired by the success, biologists intend to continue the study of the language of the plant world.
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